Keith Owen is the new Rickson. Just accept it. This guy knows what he's doing. He's absolutely revolutionary and no one should doubt his judgement with anything related to BJJ rankings or life advice in general.

The Professional - Keith Owen is the new Rickson. Just accept it. This guy knows what he's doing. He's absolutely revolutionary and no one should doubt his judgement with anything related to BJJ rankings or life advice in general.

I don't have the want or energy to care about people like Ari anymore. There are tons of other people out there ranked brown and black even less deserving than him, under legit respected instructors. It will drive you crazy caring about it. I wish the standards were kept high but they just aren't.

Ari will be a legit black belt and there isn't anything anyone can do to stop it. He obviously has questionable character and has gone about things the wrong way, so hopefully that will come back to bite him someday. Until then whatever.

JoejitsuMD - Ari will be a legit black belt and there isn't anything anyone can do to stop it. He obviously has questionable character and has gone about things the wrong way, so hopefully that will come back to bite him someday. Until then whatever.

do you really believe he will be a legit BB? i don't mean him getting a BB from a real BB, but do you think he will ever be legit anything?

It's perfectly valid to not care or think it matters, but in a way, the countdown to Ari getting his BB is like the countdown to doomsday for BJJ.

Yeah, I know BJJ will go on and there is LOTS & LOTS of very excellent BJJ out there... but on a more subtle level it will be a sort of death knell. The end of an era. 15 years ago the idea of someone like Ari get any advanced rank in BJJ was simply an impossibility. Now it's reality.

BJJ used to be an art with universally high standards for ranks, not so much anymore. Ari is the perfect symbol for the downward slide BJJ has taken in that regard.

I'm a brown belt under Relson and have been for the past 25 months. No stripe yet after training 4-5 days a week. Personally, I still love this 'old school' style. Keeps me humble and not worrying about BS.

The Professional - I'm a brown belt under Relson and have been for the past 25 months. No stripe yet after training 4-5 days a week. Personally, I still love this 'old school' style. Keeps me humble and not worrying about BS.

Holy crap dude, hopefully Relson is one of those types of guys who doesn't give any stripes then gives two or three back to back lol.

The Professional - I'm a brown belt under Relson and have been for the past 25 months. No stripe yet after training 4-5 days a week. Personally, I still love this 'old school' style. Keeps me humble and not worrying about BS.

Holy crap dude, hopefully Relson is one of those types of guys who doesn't give any stripes then gives two or three back to back lol.

Baroquen Record - I mean, if you think about it, Ari has been doing BJJ for a while now. It feels like a decade ago that we went through the whole Ari/Eddie/BQuick shit.

I guess eventually he will be somewhat legit, right?

I mean what ever happened to Gene Simco? Did he ever actually become legit, or did he just disappear?

Simco still teaches and I guess by now he should be at the level of black belt even though he frauded his way into brown and shopped around till he bought his black belt. He def has remained quiet the last 5-7yrs though, but he still teaches. Saw some of his guys at the last NY Open w the NYMAG patch crap. Of course due to his blatant bullshit, nobody who knows anything of his past is going to see him as legit.

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